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Startling Stats About Taxes Found in IRS Data
How much is the average tax refund? How does your own gross adjusted income compare to that of other tax payers? WSJ's Jason Bellini mined IRS data for intriguing facts about U.S. taxes.
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Isabelle Durant, Vice President of the European Parliament, Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director and Dame Vivienne Westwood, British fashion designer, gathered together in Brussels to launch the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)'s new 'GreenUp' initiative, conceived to bring the Green Economy closer to Europeans, where Dame Vivienne unveiled her Tree-shirt to raise funds for re-connecting Europe's forests.
Dame Vivienne said that she had agreed to be part of GreenUp because of her deep concerns about climate change. She told the audience that by buying a "Tree-shirt", they would be contributing to planting trees to provide corridors between Europe's fragmented forests where "animals would be able to party".
She said that it was crucial to involve the public in sustainable alternatives, especially in Europe where our consumption footprint is high. "Public opinion is the only thing to save us. Without it, I do believe we are an endangered species." But she also added that governments should connect with civil society to speed up the protection of forests.
Isabelle Durant stated that she hoped GreenUp would bring together people who had the same concerns and she pointed out that if people care, then politicians will care too.
According to Achim Steiner, the aim of GreenUp was to demystify the concept of a green economy in the run up to Rio+20. In answer to a question about how we could judge the success of Rio if there was no legally binding outcome, Mr Steiner said that we don't need more negotiating instruments, rather we should live up to existing ones. We need to shift the paradigm and take responsibility collectively.
As Dame Vivienne Westwood concluded, we live in a world of consumption, the antidote to which is culture and art. We should focus on the good life, one which involves less greed. "We are dangerously short of culture and of people's appreciation of what is actually a good life."
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In The Pact, Cody Garbrandt opened up about his journey to join Team Alpha Male and to become a fighter in the UFC. Cody grew up in Uhrichsville, Ohio in an area nicknamed "922". This area was known for trouble. He learned to fight with his big brother, Zach and they would always be wrestling and fighting. He had his first concussion at age six. Both brothers wrestled in school and they got into trouble along the way. But their mother was the grounding force in their life. She would always provide for them since their dad was rarely around growing up and was in an out of jail. Uncle Bob was also a strong mentor in Cody's life and he was a strong boxer. He found God in prison and changed his life around. Eventually, Cody found God too and changed his life and he came to know Christ as His Savior.
He also shared how he tried college twice and quit both times. He didn't have a passion and a drive for it, all he wanted to do was fight. He made a deal with his mother finally and declared that if he didn't make it as a fighter in five years, he would find him a real steady job. Cody had a way of getting into trouble and fights and he was hanging out with his friends at a tavern. Some guy started a fight with him and Cody was stabbed in his calf muscle and it went to his bone. Cody hit a low point in his life after that and he reached out to God and asked him what He wanted him to do with his life. A short time afterwards, Zach told him he needed to check out this awesome five year old kid, Maddux Maple. He had cancer and Zach told him that Cody should donate his next fight proceeds to him. Cody was touched by his story and reached out to his parents and started trying to get to know them. It took a while for Maddux to be well enough for Cody to meet him. Cody kept telling Maddux that he wanted him to be healthy and strong enough to walk with him out to one of his fights. Throughout the book, Cody will take readers through the journey of how he became a UFC Championship belt winner and how Maddux changed his life around.
I would recommend this remarkable book to anyone who enjoys a book that contains an inspiration story about how a fighter found his purpose in unlikely places. I haven't heard of Cody's or Maddux's story prior to reading this book. I was amazed how Maddux and Cody both helped each other in overcoming and achieving their dreams. Both seemed to be such an unlikely pair of friends and their stories collided into a beautiful masterpiece. I liked how Cody was tough in the ring and how he wasn't afraid to show his vulnerable side. Cody took the time to make sure Maddux felt included in his journey to win the championship belt. Maddux eventually did win his battle against cancer and now he lives a normal. I also liked how he shared how God was always with them both through their journeys. Cody also shared about how he met his wife in the mist of all of the fights and how everything worked out the way it was supposed to. This was an awesome read, and readers will definably enjoy it!
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US industrial giant General Electric has closed out 2012 with a better-than-expected quarter and offered a bullish outlook for 2013.
The US conglomerate said fourth-quarter operating earnings, the number most closely watched by analysts, came in at 44 US cents per share, one cent above the 43 cents forecast by analysts.
Net income, which includes non-operating pension costs, came in at 38 cents per share.
General Electric, which builds power generation equipment, wind turbines and other industrial products, said all of the sub-units of General Electric's industrial division showed year-on-year gains, with double-digit percentage increases in oil and gas, energy management, aviation and transportation.
GE Capital, the company's financing unit, posted 9 per cent year-on-year growth, the company said.GE said it repurchased $US2.1 billion ($2.00 billion) in stock during the fourth quarter, and in December raised its quarterly dividend by 12 per cent to 19 US cents per share.
Chief executive Jeffrey Immelt gave a bullish outlook for 2013, pledging double-digit industrial earnings growth and promising to return ''substantial cash'' to investors.
Immelt at one point even seemed to suggest the company could undertake acquisitions, noting that it would have a ''tonne of cash'' over the next three years.In December, Immelt spoke of an ''investment pause'' in some sectors, partly linked to the protracted Washington DC policy debate on the fiscal cliff.
Analysts during a conference call observed that GE's new orders in the fourth quarter appeared to be somewhat more robust than implied by the company.Immelt acknowledged that the end of the company's quarter came in ''very strong'' with orders ''probably above what our expectations were''.
Immelt also said the end of 2012 saw orders from China strengthen again, adding that ''we believe the China momentum will likely continue into 2013''.Strong sectors in China included the company's power and water, health care and aviation divisions.
A note from Deutsche Bank characterised the quality of GE's results on Friday as ''better than expected''. A Bank of America note predicted that GE's quarter ''should give the Street reassurance that it is on track to hit its growth target''.
GE shares closed on Friday at $US22.04, up 3.5 per cent.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Shanghai Night Net.


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Index / Political situation /
Egypt /
Political situation
Prime minister: Ahmed Shafik.
There are 31 ministers, heading each ministry, while the prime minister also heads the Ministry of Planning and International Co-operation.
The national assembly is called the People's Assembly, and has 454 seats, of which the president appoints 10 representatives. The National Democratic Party holds 415 of these seats.
Egypt is politically stable, but there have been many examples of unrest in recent years. Egypt has only a limited democracy, where elections allow only some political parites, and the elections have proven to allow few changes from pre-democratic times. Still, Egypt has made great advances, and may arrive at a true democracy in the coming years. The main challenge is the Muslim Brotherhood, which run for elections, but which adhere to an anti-democratic ideology. Their strength in the 2005 elections may stop Egypt's Western allies from pushing the democratic reforms any further.
Egypt is a country with a fair amount of freedom of speech, and civil rights are in most cases well secured.
At the present, the militant wings of Islamist groups (to which the Muslim Brotherood also belong) represent at the moment little threat to the Egyptian government, although the situation was uncertain after the bomb attacks at the tourist resort Sharm el-Sheikh in 2005.
At the present, there is about 17,000 political prisoners in Egypt. A majority of these are Islamists (according to The Egyptian Organization of Human Rights).
Egypt's political system receives strong financial support from the U.S., and, given all the challenges of the Egyptian state, they cannot do without this aid.
The Egyptian constitution defines the country as "an Arab Republic with a democratic, socialist system." The political power in the Egyptian system is divided into 4 parts: president, cabinet, legislature and court system; but actual power rests in the hands of the president. The president is elected for a period of 6 years through a referendum. The president has the power to appoint, dismiss and dissolve the other three parts of the system.
Egypt is divided into 26 governorates, each is with a governor appointed by the president.
Old political parties were abolished in 1953, and from 1962 to 1976 the Arab Socialist Union (ASU) was the only legal political party. Three political groups were in 1976 permitted within the ASU. The largest group of these is the National Democratic Party (NDP), which was the group of Anwar as-Sadat, former president. The two other groups are the Socialist Labor Party (including the Muslim Brotherhood) and the reconstituted Neo-Wafd Party.
The 2005 elections represented a little earthquake to Egyptian politics, although the ruling party remained in full control of the People's Assembly, controlling about 2/3 of all seats. Still, the strong progress by the Muslim Brotherhood, sent a signal of a people increasingly in the mood for political change. The Muslim Brotherhood had not been allowed any normal campaign, rather they had to run as independent candidates, and may well have reched greater popularity if they had been permitted to act as a normal political party.
In the September 7, 2005 presidential elections, Hosni Mubarak received a high 88.6% of the electorate, but many were still impressed by the contenders, Ayman Nour with his 7.3% and Numan Gomaa with 2.8%, who had faced many difficulties in reaching the people with their message.


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BELGRADE, Serbia — Belgrade today is known for nightlife, clubbing and a fun-loving lifestyle, but its past is scarred by war. Over the centuries, it was conquered and demolished dozens of times, standing at the historic crossroads between two mighty empires, Turkish to the east and Austro-Hungarian to the west. Even at the very end of the 20th century, the city was bombed by NATO.
But Belgrade's citizens like to compare their city to the mythical phoenix bird that always rises from the ashes. Here are five things to see and do — all free — that illustrate the Serbian capital's poignant history, mix of cultures and contemporary easygoing lifestyle.
Perched on a 125-meter-high (410-feet-high) cliff, the ancient Kalemegdan Fortress was built to fend off conquerors. Its ridge overlooks the confluence of the Sava river into the Danube, and offers a magnificent view over the new part of town and the plain that lies ahead. Over the centuries, at least 100 battles have been fought over this site, and parts of it have been erased 44 times. What remains today has been rebuilt many times. The fortification has massive gates and bridges. Kalemegdan hosts a military museum with a collection of tanks, cannons, guns, and other military vehicles.
A stroll down the hill from Kalemegdan leads to the rivers. There is a cycling and walking path upstream along the Sava River, which is a wonderful way to explore this side of Belgrade. The path first passes the tourist port — a popular area that is dotted with old warehouses turned into restaurants and cafes. Under the Branko's bridge, next on the route is the Sava Mala area, a historic center turned into a design and nightlife hub. An industrial zone by the Belgrade Fair then leads into Ada Ciganlija, a lake resort that is Belgrade's favorite relaxation and picnic area. The water in the lake is clean and there is a 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) route around it, again filled with cafes and restaurants that stay open late into the night in the summer months.
Going back into the city, Kneza Milosa street, one of the busiest traffic arteries, hosts Serbian government buildings and some embassies. As the capital of the former Yugoslavia during the communist era, Belgrade was the seat of both Serbian and Yugoslav governmental administration. This country broke up in the early 1990s in a series of conflicts largely blamed on the nationalist policies of then-Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic. Serbia became an international pariah and was bombed in 1999 by NATO to stop the war in Kosovo. Ruins of Serbia's military and police headquarters in central Belgrade are still standing unrepaired. The authorities say there is not enough money to clear them.
Skadarlija is the old Bohemian quarter of Belgrade and dates back to late 19th and early 20th century. The cobblestone street testifies to the relaxed way of life in Belgrade, largely centered around the famous kafane — local restaurants. Skadarlija's kafane always have been a meeting place of prominent poets, politicians, sportsmen. The restaurants here offer traditional cuisine, most notably the rostilj — grilled meat — over a rakija — fruit brandy — as live bands play traditional songs.
Open green markets are another typical and favorite Belgrade feature. There are several scattered throughout the city, the best known being the Kalenic market in the residential area of Vracar. The time to visit a green market in Belgrade is either Saturday or Sunday, sometime during the morning. This is still Belgraders' favorite way to shop for fruit, vegetables, eggs and dairy products, despite dozens of cash and carry supermarkets that have sprouted recently. Usually, families have favorite vendors from whom they buy fresh white cheese and a local specialty, kajmak, a dairy product that resembles cottage cheese and is best eaten spread on a piece of bread. Market vendors will chat with you and let you taste their products.
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I have been trying to use OpenGL ES 2.0 to make a photo viewing application. To optimize the code I'm changing the textures loaded with the objects as the user scroll down. But image loading into the texture takes some time and thus the effect is not good. To solve the above problem I tried using multithreading with the following ways:
1.Create a separate context for the new thread and then share the resources(texture object) with the other context
2.Use multiple threads and a single context. Make the context current while executing gl commands in the threads.
But wasn't successful in either of them. So if anyone has tried similar things with opengl earlier, could you please tell which of the above ones would work and the things I need to pay attention to while doing the same? Also would FBO's and pbuffers be of any use in this case?
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Terry Sharik Appointed Dean of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
Terry Sharik has been appointed dean of Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences (SFRES). He will take the reins on July 1, 2012, after Peg Gale, SFRES dean since March 2004, retires.
It's a homecoming for Sharik, who taught in the School of Forestry and Wood Products from 1986 to 1993. While at Michigan Tech, he was president of the University Senate and associate director of the Lake Superior Ecosystem Research Center. Since 1993, he has been a professor of forest ecology at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. At Utah State, Sharik served as head of the Departments of Forest Resources and Environment and Society.
"Terry's wide range of experience was evident throughout the interview process," said Professor Blair Orr, who chaired the search committee for the new Forestry dean. "He has an understanding of coursework and accreditation, not only of how it works today, but also insight into where it will be tomorrow. He has worked on large collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects and has a vision of how the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science can partner with others on campus to build stronger and more effective research programs."
After earning a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Wildlife Management at West Virginia University, and a Master of Forestry and a PhD in Forest Recreation and Forest Botany, respectively, from the University of Michigan, Sharik taught at the University of Michigan Biological Station, Oberlin College, and Virginia Tech, as well as Michigan Tech and Utah State. He was also employed as an environmental consultant in the corporate sector for a brief period.
He was named a University Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the University of Michigan and Distinguished Teacher of the Year at Michigan Tech.
Sharik is co-founder of the Biennial Conferences on University Education in Natural Resources and the North American Forest Ecology Workshops. He remains deeply involved in educational reform in natural resources at the national and global levels through National Association of University Forest Resources programs. He is a fellow of the Society of American Foresters.
In 2005, Sharik helped establish the Gombe School of Environment and Society (GOSESO) in Tanzania, East Africa. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Forestry. He serves as chair of the GOSESO-USA board and the Sustainable Forests Partnership.
"I am thrilled and honored to be the next dean of Michigan Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, and I hope that together, the faculty, staff, students and I can make some really great things happen. The key word is 'together,' as I feel strongly about being part of a "we" culture. Any vision I might have for the school will ultimately be a collective vision. My journey in academic leadership began at Michigan Tech, and having been gone for nearly two decades, I very much look forward to returning and giving back some of what I have learned and experienced since then."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Our Annual Supper - always a highlight of the year - with a great meal, close-up magic and this year our cabaret performer is Steve Faulkner. Steve's performing experience in street-theatre, close-up, stage and after-dinner shows has evolved into a perfect blend of comedy and magic. His informal mix of humour and magic with a touch of mind reading and escapology will provide great entertainment for members and our guests.
We do hope you will invite family and friends to help make our Supper night a great success. Why not make up a table of ten?


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Every change we commit MUST have a corresponding bug or enhancement in Bugzilla. Be sure to set the bug's Target Milestone correctly.
Git commit messages are mandatory
You MUST enter a message when you commit a change to Git. The message MUST include the number of the Bugzilla bug or enhancement.
Commit messages should be concise. It's best to say why you made the change, as opposed to saying what you changed.
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- Better: "Bug 12345 - Added quartsToGallons() on calls to pumpGas()."
- Best: "Bug 12345 - The input to the gas pump must be in gallons, not quarts."
If you want to write more about your changes, do it in Bugzilla.
Links between bugs and fixes are mandatory
When you resolve a bug, you MUST include the ID of your fix's Git commit. If there's more than one commit, include all of their IDs.
The easiest way to find the ID of a commit is with the Git Reflog view, which lists the commits in a particular branch. Double-click on your commit to open it in the Commit Viewer. Right-click on the ID at the top of the Commit Viewer and choose Copy SHA-1.
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Wrapping up six months of work
ESA astronaut André Kuipers is scheduled to leave the International Space Station and land on 1 July. André is finishing experiments and packing his bags ready for departure. One of the last experiments is looking at how a human body stays warm.
We take it for granted that our bodies stay at around 37ºC. Go jogging, spend time in a sauna, forget your coat on a cold day and your body will adapt and regulate its temperature. Blood vessels expand or contract and we sweat to keep heat or let excess warmth evaporate.
On Earth, our bodies rely on convection to cool down: as liquids and gases heat up they become less dense and rise, moving heat away from our skin.
There is no convection in weightlessness so it is surprising that astronauts' bodies adapt and do not overheat in space.
The Thermolab project is looking at an astronaut's temperature during long missions to help understand how our bodies adapt to weightlessness.
As temperature control is particularly important during exercise, scientists on Earth are observing André and his colleagues at rest and during exercise.
The experiment is run in conjunction with NASA research on maximum oxygen intake as astronauts on the Station use an exercise bicycle.
Using traditional thermometers in space is time-consuming and impractical. Instead, André has two sensors on his forehead and chest that measure his temperature continuously.
The sensor was first used by ESA astronaut Frank De Winne in 2009 and then extensively during the Mars500 mission to measure how body temperature depends on the night and day cycle.
Hospitals are showing an interest in the Thermolab equipment. Being able to monitor body temperature can provide an early warning to a change in a patient's condition. As the system is non-invasive, it is more hygienic and easier to use.
André and his two crewmates will land at 08:15 GMT (10:15 CEST) on Sunday 1 July. Watch the landing via ESA and read his blog as he enters the last weeks of his PromISSe mission.


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Boston, MA: No. 9 Park's Prune-stuffed Gnocchi, an Iconic Boston Dish
A weekly profile on a favorite New England dish.
This is one of those iconic Boston dishes that really needs no introduction, but let's start with a few anyway.
Mark Bittman, in a 2002 New York Times article, called No. 9 Park's Prune-Stuffed Gnocchi appetizer ($21) "a no-holds-barred spectacle." Ike Delorenzo, in a 2009 Boston Globe retrospective on five of the all-time-best dishes in the Hub, dubbed it "marvelously clever" and shared a personal anecdote about how his 14-year-old niece found the dish so tasty, she actually stopped texting at the table to eat them. And Globe restaurant critic Devra First spelled out a bold truth when she said this is "possibly one of the best dishes ever served in a Boston restaurant."
In simple terms, it's a three part dish—gnocchi, sauce, and garnishes—but if you read the recipe (Stir: Mixing It Up in the Italian Tradition, pp: 159-162), it's clear that plenty of thought (and labor) goes into each component.
Unlike most gnocchi that are stubby and uniform, these are longer and plumper, the pillowy potato dough folded neatly over a sweet, silky purée of vin santo-soaked prunes and then indented in the middle so that the finished product resembles a little canoe. They're fat and cute and manage to pull off the elusive balance of rich, sumptuous flavors captured in a delicate frame.
Things start getting progressively decadent from there. The sauce—basically a log of foie gras butter melted with more vin santo into an almost glaze-y reduction—is the meatiest-tasting beurre blanc you've ever had, with a pronounced sweetness from the wine. It's also a preview of things to come—specifically, the three wedges of seared liver that sit perched on top of the pasta. Rosy in the center, swollen with fat, and deeply bronzed all over, the foie pieces look like prime steaks fit for Lilliputian royalty. (And at about $60 per pound for the Hudson Valley stuff, it may as well be.)
The other garnishes are simple and pitch-perfect: wrinkly, chewy bits of prune, toasted and chopped Marcona almonds (this mashup of Italian and French fare just side-stepped into Spain), and feathery leaves of chervil placed just so on the gnocchi spines (I'm gonna bet a pair of precision tweezers were involved in plating).
In other words, it's a stunner and a splurge-worthy rite of passage if you like to eat out in this town.
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Assistant Professor of Art and Design & Director of Maker Lab
The integration of technology into the 21st-century classroom is an essential part of the ACU experience. However, for professors in ACU's creative arts programs the use of technology requires - ironically - more creativity.
Nil Santana, assistant professor of Art and Design, is among the multitude of professors who take ACU-s reputation as a technologically innovative institution seriously.
Technology as a tool
"Although technology plays an important role in what I teach, I still place emphasis in the creative process. I try to show to my students that any technology is just a tool, and it should not be the end," he said. "Well, sometimes technology could become the concept and be the object of a project. However, a tool without a person with a creative mind to use it is just a thing."
For Santana, the use of blogs has made a tremendous difference in his classroom and the way his students learn. He admits never having seen their value in the classroom prior to his adaptation of blogs. Today, they are an essential part of every Nil Santana class.
"Today, there is a sense of communal construction of knowledge. Students are not restricted to the walls of the classroom, nor to me as central figure of information dissemination. Everyone is encouraged to contribute, share and be part of the dialectics. In that sense, there has been a transfer of responsibility and authorship to them," he said.
Pluses of mobile learning
He believes that ACU's emphasis on mobile learning has produced three main positive differences in his classes. First, it has created new ways to get and keep students engaged. Second, it has increased the accessibility of information. Third, it has allowed students to communicate more outside of class. However, he believes the merge of technology and education is just beginning.
"To use the cliché - I think we are just scratching the surface of mobile learning. I can't wait to see the full integration of those technologies with e-books. Nicholas Negroponte from MIT talked about media convergence in the late 1970s. Not many people grasped that concept then. Can you imagine? I am sure he didn't foresee Apple's iPhone, nor iPad, but definitely a turn in the way we perceive information - either textual or pictorial. I think this is an exciting time to be part of ACU's community," Nil said.
Nil is hoping to further understand the intersection of technology and education - specifically art and design - through his doctoral studies. He is in his second year of dissertation and hopes to defend it this summer.
"Just like any other program, the one I am working on is very rigorous and demanding. That also makes it especially harder when I still need to teach, be a father, a husband, finding time for myself and my personal projects as well. Without a doubt, I am thoroughly enjoying the process and challenges," he said.
See other ways Santana is using technology to teach art and photography in ACU's 2010-11 Mobile Learning Report


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I have made a simple online demo which shows how today it is possibel to use vector based graphics for your websites.
The format is SVG which is "Scalable Vector Graphics", an old very cool standard which is gaining more and more support online.
So if you create graphics for the web, perhaps you should consider using SVG instead of PNG or JPG or even GIF
Have a look at my online demo where you can see it in action and also see the HTML and CSS I have used.
I have used the cute demo drawing of a Mini and added some CSS animated scaling, pretty cool.
The products from Xara are perfect for the task as they can export in SVG.
Enjoy: http://codepen.io/netsi1964/full/npCrH
You must press "Edit pen" to see the source code.


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Solenoid valves are broadly used for controlling heat or cooling with ON/OFF consumers. An electrical current is turned into a magnetic field, which opens or closes the valve mechanically.
Solenoid valves are valve types used in applications for refrigerants, gas, vapors, and liquids.
The working principle encompasses applying electrical current to a coil, which creates a magnetic field. It is turned into mechanical energy which opens or closes the valve mechanically.
This is a very reliable principle, cost efficient on a broadly use for any application with a ON/OFF consumers.
Solenoid valves can work as in-line components, and as pilots for larger valves.


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As you travel the 27-mile Schoodic Byway you will see tidal falls that reverse direction every six hours, historical architecture, piers piled high with lobster traps, clammers working knee-deep in tidal mud flats, and a very scenic portion of Acadia National Park. There are many places to fish by boat or from the shore. You can rent a bicycle or kayak to tour Acadia National Park and its surroundings and stay in one of many local area campgrounds. Bicycle and kayak guides are available. Hunting is a popular late-autumn sport. The preserved rural character of the Schoodic area will delight historians and architects. There are more than 20 lighthouses in downeast Maine and some of the most noteworthy can be found right here. Heritage visitors not only get to see historic architecture such as the Stone Store on Route 1 and the West Gouldsboro Village Library on Route 186, but can even live it. Several local inns and bed and breakfasts are registered restored historic buildings. There are no shopping malls or retail franchises here. Businesses are locally owned and offer a wide range of locally produced arts, crafts, food and gift items. You can browse country stores, art galleries and antique shops along the way, buy bread from local bakers, and sample the catch-of-the-day. In July and August you are likely to see artists at work at the Schoodic Arts for All Festival and other events. Designated as a national scenic byway in June 2000, the Schoodic Scenic Byway rambles along 27 miles of beautiful scenery and breathtaking views of the ocean, Cadillac Mountain and Frenchman Bay. Traveling on US Route 1 North from Ellsworth, a sign at the Sullivan town line marks the beginning of the Schoodic Scenic Byway. Set your vehicle trip meter to "0" and find the following points of interest.
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Panoramic view of Sullivan Harbor with reversing falls in the distance. Just before the bridge crossing Taunton Bay, visit the Schoodic Byway Gateway on your left. Also, take a side trip to the reversing falls on Hancock Point. Point of interest: Historic Stone House. Off the byway, Route 185 winds southward, down the Sorrento Peninsula to stunning views of Flanders Bay and Frenchman Bay, with historic cottages scattered along the shoreline. Golfers will especially enjoy the nine-hole course located on the shore. Route 183 northward will take you to the Tunk Lake, Donnell Pond and Flanders Pond area for public and shared-use hiking trails to Schoodic Mountain.
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Scenic turnout with views of Sullivan Harbor and Mount Desert Island mountains.
Mile 2.8:
Picnic area with bathroom facilities and stunning views of Long Cove.
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Simpson's Cemetery.
Mile 5.1:
Old John Dority Grange #381, built in 1870.
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Schoodic Area Chamber of Commerce information kiosk with spectacular views of Frenchman Bay, Porcupine Islands and Cadillac Mountain.
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Junction of Route 186; turn right to continue on the Schoodic Scenic Byway.
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West Gouldsboro village center.
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First view of the Atlantic Ocean.
Mile 12.2
: Junction of Summer Harbor Road with more breathtaking views of Frenchman Bay and Cadillac Mountain.
Mile 14.8:
Village of Winter Harbor with stunning views of the working waterfront. Points of interest: Historic Channing Chapel, Mark Island Lighthouse.
Mile 15.3:
Moore Road leading to the Schoodic portion of Acadia National Park.
Mile 22.7:
Park exit; turn right into the town of Gouldsboro. Point of interest: Historic West Gouldsboro Library.
Mile 24.6:
Birch Harbor Village.
Mile 27.2:
Prospect Harbor and byway terminus. Point of interest: Prospect Harbor Lighthouse. While in Prospect Harbor, turn right onto route 195 and visit the quaint fishing village of Corea. Watch the local lobstermen unload their catch. Corea is also home to traditional fishing-boat building. Annual events in the area include: Trade Day and Benefit Auction, third Saturday in May. Tour the area while shopping at the peninsula-wide yard sales. The day ends with a benefit auction at Hammond Hall. Franklin Family Fun Day, fourth Saturday in July. A day of old-fashioned fun, with a watermelon eating contest, bake-offs, sack races, a craft fair and games for everyone. For a small fee you can enjoy some down-home cooking at the famous chicken barbecue. Sullivan Daze, first Saturday in August. Sullivan's all-day festival is put on by the volunteer firefighters of Sullivan and Sorrento to celebrate community pride and to help raise money for the Volunteer Fire Department. Winter Harbor Lobster Festival, second Saturday in August. Start off the day with a blueberry-pancake breakfast, then watch the ever-popular lobster boat races with 13 classes rated by size and power, shop at the craft fair with 80 exhibitors, eat a Maine lobster dinner and stay for the evening parade.
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My objection in that earlier case was simple and mirrors the reasons I've protested the Google settlement. The writers' organizations — ASJA, the Authors Guild and NWU — agreed to hand over, to the Defendants, the future rights of anyone who didn't file a claim or opt out.
(See the Tasini case for the genesis and a bit of background; also see Irv Muchnick's blog, which outlines every move since, in excruciating detail).
Defendants also got the only thing they should have been given, what Defendants normally get in a settlement: release of the claims of past wrongdoing.
I objected to the theft of the rights of absent class members, first to the leadership of ASJA and then, when I could not get them to budge, to the court.
Fast forward to yesterday, and ASJA as well as NWU (as part of a group called the Bloom objectors) have filed an objection to the Google settlement.
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"… after approval, Rightsholders will be deemed to have granted a license by virtue of doing nothing."
In other words, ASJA and NWU, both of which once agreed to give away, to Defendants in the earlier class action, the future rights of periodicals writers who fail to opt out or file claims, now object to giving away the future rights of book authors who fail to opt out or file claims.
ASJA's aggressive support for what I saw as theft in the Freelance settlement is the primary reason I resigned from that organization. That was no small thing for me. I'd been a very active volunteer on the First Amendment and other committees, and had served on the board.
I'm glad to see that ASJA, under the new leadership of Salley Shannon, finally appears to understand that it's unethical to bargain away the rights of some writers in exchange for better terms for the writers you represent.
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Becoming a professor was never a dream of mine. I didn't have visions of me standing before a class, getting "high" off higher education as I watched the intellectual atmosphere get saturated with fresh thoughts and new insights. I never fantasized about waking up in the middle of the night to write an intriguing question or idea before it slipped away. I would have never guessed that being a New Testament Studies and Early Christianity scholar would be part of my self-description. Yet as I reflect upon these notions (and how they've all come to pass) and the fact that I couldn't imagine doing anything else, I begin to realize that although this path may not have started as a dream, it is undoubtedly a calling.
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CReCER 2013 Stresses Importance of Strong Financial Reporting and Public Sector Financial Management
Aug 01, 2013 | Cartagena, Colombia | English
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the global organization for the accountancy profession, along with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Global Public Policy Committee, held the seventh Conference for Accounting and Accountability for Regional Economic Growth, or CReCER (Contabilidad y Responsabilidad para el Crecimiento Económico Regional) in Cartagena, Colombia, this week. IFAC member body the Instituto Nacional de Contadores Públicos de Colombia hosted and executed the 2013 CReCER event.
Themed Integrating Approaches to Financial Reporting to Advance Regional Economic Growth: An Exchange between Public and Private Sector, the conference drew more than 350 attendees and speakers and covered important topics, such as national and regional initiatives to advance adoption and implementation of international standards; global perspectives on the evolving role of auditors and accountants; recent capital market developments to support investment; and the future of business reporting, including integrated reporting.
IFAC supports this important event as part of overall efforts to strengthen professional accountancy organizations and their role in contributing to high-quality financial reporting and serving as centers of excellence for the auditing and accountancy profession. This year's event was especially important because of the timeliness of the sessions on strategies for integrating International Public Sector Accounting Standards with public sector financial management systems and the recent Exposure Draft on auditor reporting from the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.
"The discussions, collaborations, and learning that takes place at CReCER by the profession and its key stakeholders have a lasting impact on accountancy and the economies in the region," according to IFAC President Warren Allen. "These three days set up the next few years of work on the ground for professional accountancy organizations and international standard setters."
IFAC looks forward to continuing to collaborate with nations and organizations in the region to advance the global and local issues of importance to accountancy and accountants, especially strengthening public sector financial management.
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Lettering: Maria Lieber
Bookstore, where art thou? If there's a single theme that stood out as we compiled and reported our roundup of summer reading, it was lamenting Honolulu's lack of general book retailers. Specialty bookstores abound, from Na Mea Hawaii for all things Hawaiian to Jelly's for used books. But the places in town to shop for mass-market and literary books has shrunk to two. Bookends in Kailua is perhaps the last remaining locally owned bookstore and, with the closing of Barnes & Noble in Kahala Mall, we're left with the Ala Moana Center location as the last mass retailer in town.
Nevertheless, local presses are churning out new titles, albeit some at slower paces than before. Here's our list of notable summer reads, along with recommendations from some of Hawaii's local authors. Having trouble finding these books? There's always Amazon.
The Inspiring Side of Chris McKinney
Known for his hard-edged fiction, local author Chris McKinney has set aside his damaged characters to write the hope-filled memoir of a high school classmate.
In a departure from his typical fictional portrayal of a Hawaii in turmoil, Chris McKinney has collaborated with his childhood friend, Dr. Rudy Puana, to write a local-boy-does-good story for younger readers. It's a move that may have die-hard McKinney fans a little perplexed, as he turns away from the grittiness of the Islands to adopt a more inspirational tone.
Still, The Red-headed Hawaiian, released last month by Mutual Publishing, seeks to challenge a few ingrained local attitudes, including notions of what it means to be tough, and give permission to Hawaii's youth to dream for better lives than their parents had.
"It's a book that doesn't necessarily uncover the messy reality of Hawaii, but one that hopefully shows kids who live under glass ceilings, for whatever reason, that anything is possible," he says. "I would call it my give-back book."
The story, told in Puana's voice, follows an unlikely candidate for medical school—a local boy from Kahaluu making bad grades and bad decisions. To the surprise of his friends and family, he summons the determination to get into medical school, his eyes set on the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine. But when UH puts him on the wait list, and a slew of Mainland schools offer him acceptance and scholarships, he's forced to consider something he never thought he'd do: move beyond Hawaii's shores.
"I didn't think the Mainland had anything special to offer," says Puana, who now has a medical practice in Hilo serving the Native Hawaiian community. "I was very sheltered in a bubble of Hawaii. My dad was very local, a local fisherman. At first he hated me going to school, because I would help him on side jobs for plumbing."
Puana goes from not knowing "Kimo from chemo" to becoming the youngest associate medical director of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Even to this day, friends and former classmates are surprised when they discover he's a successful doctor.
"Me being fair-skinned, redhead, last name Puana, I had to be more local than the brown Keoni next door. So I was the typical local punk," he says. "Especially when I go to Oahu, when people ask what I'm doing now and I say, doctor, they think I'm kidding."
Puana originally began writing the book on the Mainland as a series of memories and anecdotes, his way of pining for his beloved Hawaii. Eventually he thought he might have the makings for a book, so he reached out to his Mid-Pacific Institute classmate and Kahaluu friend Chris McKinney.
"Over the years, people have always tried to pitch me their life story. Of course, most of the time the answer is no," McKinney says. When he read through Puana's work, though, he saw potential.
Part of what Puana discovered when he first went to med school is that the vast majority of Mainland kids wanted to be doctors from when they were 5 years old. "That's not implanted in local rural Hawaii," McKinney says. "No one I've known as a kid had parents who told them, 'Doctors make a lot of money, you should grow up and be a doctor.'"
Having worked with local students for 14 years at Honolulu Community College, McKinney says he's seen their aspirations get pigeonholed.
"We're talking about Kalihi here, so a lot of kids grow up the way I grew up," he says. And it's not just at HCC. Even in his work with his Language Arts Center in Mililani, which he runs with his wife, he says the same ideas present themselves. "Maybe it's not a socioeconomic thing, it's a Hawaii ethos thing."
In the end, through Puana's story, McKinney wants to challenge the common local definition of tough. "When we think of tough, it's how much ass you can kick, essentially. But that's not tough, that's easy. Tough is doing the necessary things, day in and day out, to achieve your goals."
Now that he's had his foray into creative nonfiction, should we expect his own memoir anytime soon? Don't count on it, he says. Instead, McKinney is looking away from publishing to the greener pastures of television and film. He's been working with a writing partner on a pilot for a cable series. In fact, they're shopping it to FX, AMC and a few others, he says. Tentatively titled The Aina, it's a noir series in the mode of The Sopranos and The Wire, set on the Big Island.
"What's become more and more apparent to me over the years is that books are dying, especially here," McKinney says. "When my first book came out, I had to go to all the bookstores all over the island for book signings and stuff like that. But now there's only one bookstore. I've known for a while now that I'm at a point where I'm done with books."
What will Chris Mckinney read this summer?
by Émile Zola
"One of those classics I always wanted to read and am finally getting to."
Ewa Which Way
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"I like to keep up with what younger local writers are producing."
The Nanjing Massacre: Poems
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"To bone up on some contemporary poetry, which I admittedly neglect too much, like most of America."


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Tom Arnold and his wife Ashley Groussman are proud parents-to-be. The actor announced he's expecting a baby boy during a guest co-hosting stint on The View Friday.
"I'm pregnant," Arnold said. "I have put on, like, 40 pounds. Honestly, I am. My wife is pregnant too. We're having a baby."
Photos: Hot winter TV eye candyArnold revealed Groussman is seven months along, but the couple has yet to pick a name.Arnold, who's been married three times before, admitted that this wasn't the first time he'd attempted to start a family. "I've tried with other people, but since there is a God, we were unable to conceive," Arnold joked.


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Investors still pulling money off the tableNovember 8, 2012: 2:22 PM ET
With the two-day market shutdown due to Hurricane Sandy, investors didn't do much with their money last week.
Overall, they pulled $488 million from long-term mutual funds in the week ended Oct. 31, according to the Investment Company Institute.
But that's far less than normal.
During a typical week this year, investors have injected an average of $5 billion into mutual funds.
The limited activity was partly due to the closure of U.S. financial markets on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 as New York City coped with the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, including widespread power outages and a halt in public transportation.
Mutual funds were closed for both redemption and purchases during those two days as well, and any transactions that investors had planned were likely pushed to later in the week, said Shelly Antoniewicz, senior economist at ICI.
But that wasn't the only reason investors sat on the sidelines. With President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney running neck-and-neck, uncertainty about the outcome of the presidential election left many investors unwilling to place any big bets.
Related: After Sandy, a flurry of stock market micro flash crashes
During the shortened week, investors pulled $1.9 billion from U.S. stock mutual funds, bringing the year's total outflow to more than $110 billion.
They added just $2.6 billion to bond funds, the least since early July. So far in 2012, bond funds have attracted nearly $300 billion.
The ICI data also show that hybrid funds, which invest in both stocks and bonds and have been extremely popular among investors this year, lost $672 million last week.


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It would be unfair to give too much away here. Let's just say that all is not what it seems at an exclusive boarding school in England. On the surface, it is the perfect start in life, but the question is, what kind of life?
I found this book intriguing from the start. Even though I had no idea what was actually going on, the story had my attention and I could not pull away. Usually I consult reviews at some point while I am reading a book , but with this one I instinctively realized I should resist the temptation. It was better to allow the understanding to dawn slowly in small reveals along the way. I also resisted seeing the movie on a plane while I was actually still reading it – such self-control, and I enjoyed seeing The Social Network instead!
The writing by this Japanese author is excellent although there may not be enough happening for action and plot lovers. If you like to explore the nuances within relationships and are intrigued by interpersonal dynamics, this is definitely a book for you. And after you have read the book, you can see the movie!


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Yo so i've got a problem playing this game , it seems like the gameplay is going at 200% speed with frame limiter on and going on 60 fps.
the game is Dead Ball Zone LINK REMOVED, DOWNLOADING ISO IS ILLEGAL !
and the other problem is when i select the open GL plugin no game will start


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Casey Anthony, who is currently set to stand trial in 2010 for the first-degree murder of her daughter, Caylee, will have her story told in Stephen Soderbergh's new play, "Tot Mom," which will debut this December. But should she?
Natisha Lance, writing on behalf of the Nancy Grace show, notes that Soderbergh used transcripts from Grace's program, as well as "court documents, and police reports" to create a show based on the case. Lance claims that she has "no doubt that will be a huge success," and sadly, I don't either, though I think Lance and I have different measures for success in this case.
While I'm sure Soderbergh's play will create a ton of publicity and rake in quite a few dollars, I have to say I'm not exactly sure what the point is. Anthony's story is far from over; her trial hasn't even begun. The play is being put on by the Sydney Theatre Company (which, by the way, counts Cate Blanchett as one of its artistic directors), and the Company claims that show is a "compelling drama for our sensation-hungry times." As Grace is apparently a character in the play, my guess is that the show will focus on Grace's typical mode of doing business, which, as the Company's website notes "transformed the case from a tragic story to a 24-hour news spectacle."
If the play is a commentary on how 24-hour news creates entertainment out of tragedies, I'm curious to see how Soderbergh balances his own foray into creating entertainment out of the murder of a child—even for social commentary or social psychology's sake, let's say—without coming out of this with the stench of exploitation all over the work. It's impossible to critique the play at this point; I've never read it, much less seen it, so I can't say what Soderbergh is aiming for here. I will say, however, that I find it quite sad and a bit disturbing that Grace's site is already trumpeting the play as a rousing success and victory of sorts for Grace; yes, she may have brought a great deal of attention to the case, but a child is dead, a mother is in prison for the murder. There are no winners here.
Tot Mom To Hit The Stage! [CNN]
Tot Mom [Sydney Theatre Company]


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The island of Tinos is blessed with not only natural beauty, but also very important and worth-seeing historical, archaeological and cultural resources:
A walk through the town of Tinos will give you the chance to visit its main sights. Do not miss:
Panagia Evangelistria (or Megalochari) church: It was established in 1823 and built on the spot where the icon of Annunciation had been found after a vision nun Pelagia had. It is a majestic building made of white Tinian and Parian (=from Paros) marble. The exhibition of icons and heirlooms comprising of old icons from local churches and the ambry including works of gold thread embroidery and silverware are worth seeing.
The memorial of Elli, the Greek battle cruiser which was torpedoed by an Italian submarine outside the port of Tinos in August 1940.Next to the Evresis (=discovery) church (dedicated to the finding of the holy icon) which is located at the first floor of Evangelistria church, you will find the memorial to the soldiers who lost their lives when Elli was sunk.
The Art Gallery exhibiting remarkable works of Greek and foreign painters.
The "Small Park" where you can observe the busts of major Tinian artists.
Agios Nikolaos Katholikon Church.
Koimisis tis Theotokou church.
The fountain dating back to the reign of Otto, first King of Greece (19th century).
The building of the Foundation of Tinos Civilization exhibiting works made by the renowned Greek sculptor Giannoulis Chalepas.
The location known as "Pallada" near the port.
The church of the Holy Cross where you can see relics of the harbor breakwaters (1816).
The ruins of the wall of the ancient city.
The memorial to the Fallen (1912) offering an amazing view of the port.
The Archaeological Museum exhibiting findings from the sanctuaries of Demeter and Poseidon (7th century) and Amphitrite (dating back to the Hellenistic period).
The Tinian Artists Museum.
Archaeological sites on Tinos
xRoads and walking paths will take you to a plethora of conspicuous archaeological sites, among which we should mention:
Kionia: The sanctuary of Poseidon and Amphitrite has been discovered close to the village of Kionia. It used to be a Hellenistic sanctuary of great religious importance with a two-faced long stoa and a small Doric peristyle temple of the 2nd century BC with a sanctum altar and a fountain. Roman baths and imperial statues of the period 1st-3rd centuries AD have also been found in the same area.
Agia Thekla: Mycenaean tholos tombs of the 13th century BC with lots of pottery and jewellery items have been found.
Exombourgo: It used to be the most important ancient town of the island, built in the 8th century BC. To remind the glory days, there are now remnants in the area, comprising those of a temple dedicated to the goddesses Demeter and Persephone. Geometric and archaic vessels have been found too.
The Peisistratos Aqueduct: During the years of the tyranny of Peisistratos in Athens, the island acquired an aqueduct built between 549 and 542 BC. What is amazing is that Tinos stopped depending on that aqueduct for its water supplies only in1934!
One can come across other archaeological finds in the area of the villages Gastria, Vryokastro, and Marla.
Churches and Monasteries on Tinos
Tinos is the island of Virgin Mary, the religious island of the Cyclades par excellence. No wonder over 750 churches lie on its land, with 220 of them being Catholic ones.
Apart from the churches of Panagia (=Virgin Mary) and Evresis, in the town of Tinos there are also the churches of Agios Ioannis, the Taxiarhes church with the iconostasis of the 18th century, and the Catholic churches of Agios Nikolas and Agios Antonios.
In Falatado, you can visit the marble church of Agios Ioannis and the largest church on Tinos, Agia Triada, built in 1610.
In Steni, don't miss the church of Agios Antonios, as it is decorated by a wonderful wood carved iconostasis of the 17th century, as well as by an impressive epitaph and some old icons.
In Ksinara is situated the Catholic church of Panagia of the Rosario, which happens to be the seat of the Archbishop of Tinos.
In Kampos, some more wonderful icons and a wooden iconostasis of 1775 await you at the church of Agia Aikaterini.
In Ysternia, you will see the Katapoliani Holy Convent of 1786, the church of Agia Paraskevi with the fantastic iconostasis, and one of the oldest churches on the island, Agios Athanasios.
On mount Tsiknias, there is the church of Faneromeni, providing services for both the Catholic and the Orthodox believers.
In the area of Kalloni, there is the Catholic church of Panagia Vryssiotissa, with the icon of Panagia (Virgin Mary) that had been found there in the 17th century.
The monasteries of Tinos are no less important and beautiful than its churches. Among them, you can visit:
Among the Catholic monasteries, you can visit:
Visitgreece.gr is the official tourism web site for Greece, run by the Greek National Tourism Organisation, where you'll find information on the main tourist destinations, such as cities, beaches, as well as activities, events and much more!
All content included on this site consists intellectual property of GNTO and you are not allowed to reproduce the whole or part of this work in any way.
For information please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com. All Rights Reserved. GNTO © 2020.


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With a few exceptions, William Shakespeare's trips to the big screen have been sumptuous affairs. The plays favor an expansive vision by the director, so we get films like Julie Taymor's Titus and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. But one of the many beautiful things about Shakespeare is how flexible it is in terms of setting. You can set it on a modern battlefield (Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus), in a high school (Tim Blake Nelson's Othello adaptation, O), or in the case of Joss Whedon's Much Ado about Nothing, in an upper-class home. Whedon's Much Ado is a bold challenge for the director not because of fancy costumes or complex staging, but because he removes two of his greatest assets: his dialogue and a budget. Of course, nothing Whedon (or anyone else) could write would surpass the Bard, but it's an entertaining exercise seeing the director speak only in a visual language, and then having his budget limit what visuals he has available. With no money and another author's work, Whedon finds his film's strength in the superb cast, clever staging, and an expert understanding of dialogue.
Much Ado about Nothing is a romantic-comedy based on deceptions both playful and malevolent. Shot in black-and-white and set in the present day, the story concerns Don Pedro (Reed Diamond), his officers Claudio (Fran Kranz) and Benedict (Alexis Denisof), and Pedro's devious brother Don John (Sean Maher), coming to visit the home of the governor of Messina, Lenato (Clark Gregg). There they find Lenato's sweet but plain daughter Hero (Jillian Morgese) and his sharp-tongued niece Beatrice (Amy Acker). Claudio becomes smitten with Hero, and Don Pedro wishes to play the matchmaker, so the bitter Don John attempts to embarrass his brother by sabotaging Claudio and Hero's budding romance. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedict continue to snipe at each other through witty war of words until the supporting players trick the pair into believing they have feelings for each other.
Among Shakespeare's work, I enjoy Much Ado but it's not one of my favorites. It's a schizophrenic piece linked by common actions of different intents. Love is no match for deception, but you get two stories: one is a bit of a melodramatic tale of two romantics the Don Pedro is trying to turn cynical, and two cynics that their friends are trying to turn into romantics. There's a mirror, and a connecting theme, but I get annoyed by the Claudio/Hero tale. It's so overwrought, the characters are so dumb, and there's nothing interesting about their relationship. But the Benedict/Beatrice story absolutely crackles. They have some of Shakespeare's sharpest barbs, and in the hands of the right actors, they characters are electric.
In the hands of Denisof and Acker, the characters are electric. Everyone in the cast knows their Shakespeare, and while Morgese and Kranz are able to make Hero and Claudio tolerable, we always want to get back to Benedict and Beatrice. In the modern age, Shakespeare relies heavily on its cast to translate his words, and so there's a greater emphasis on delivery and body language. Whedon has always had the confidence to give the screen over to his actors, and here that confidence is essential to why Much Ado works.
Even though the cast are speaking someone else's words, Whedon remains a master of dialogue. He knows its timing and flow, and how it can spark and crackle. It's why the Benedict and Beatrice scenes are so much fun, and why Nathan Fillion and Tom Lenk almost steal the movie as Lenato's buffoonish constables (re-imagined as security guards) Dogberry and Verges, respectively. They make us want Zombie Shakespeare to rise from the grave, and give the bumbling duo a series of spinoff plays.
Whedon's knack for comedy is why the farcical stuff works the best. He dotes upon his actors' pratfalls, and it's an absolute joy to watch Benedict try to overhear Claudio, Leanto, and Don Pedro's leading conversation. Without his own words, Whedon weaves around Shakespeare, and my only complaint is that the director lacks the budget and stronger material. The limitations still allow Whedon to have fun (like having Benedict daydream about Beatrice in a little girl's bedroom), but I can only imagine what he could accomplish with a little more money and a play like A Midsummer's Night Dream. Whedon may not have the bard's words, but he's totally worthy of bringing them to the big screen even if it's on a small budget.
Rating: 8.1 out of 10
For all of our TIFF 2012 coverage, click here. Here are links to all of my TIFF 2012 reviews:
- Anna Karenina
- Argo
- Looper
- The Master
- On the Road
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- Seven Psychopaths
- Sightseers
- Stories We Tell


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Eight questions about heroin and the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Washington Post.
The article above cites the following as what happens when one takes heroin….it sounds like something better than sex…But, of course these feelings fade with the addiction and then, maybe, you'll die.
A short but powerful "rush" and then a high that lasts four to five hours. It is described as a warm, drowsy, cozy state. People report a profound sense of satisfaction, as though all needs were fulfilled. There is also a pleasant state of mild dizziness that is not as impairing as alcohol's effects, and a sense of 'distancing' or apathy toward whatever is going on in the environment.
Prescription Rx abuse could lead to Heroin…Read the NYT article here…..


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Steve Boivie
posted on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 11:05 am
I want to run a path analysis with two dichotomous dependent variables. My path analysis is fairly simple, but I also want to control for a number of variables that are not directly in the analysis. Usually, in SEM I would partial these variables out of my correlation matrix and then run the analysis on the partial matrix. However, I know that in Mplus I must use the raw data for categorical dvs. Is there any way to still control for these variables without adding them all to my path model?
posted on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 4:29 pm
I am not clear on how you partial variables out of a correlation matrix - is that something a regression approach can do? If so, this approach could be applied to raw data for categorical dvs.
Steve Boivie
posted on Friday, November 01, 2002 - 7:14 am
What I was doing to control for variables in the past was to run my correlation matrix on the variables of interest, while partialling out the control variables. This results in a partial correlation matrix, where the bivariate correlations are a reflection of the correlation between the two variables after the variance that is due to a correlation with a third variable has been removed. I would then use that correlation matrix to run the path analysis. However, my impression from the Mplus manual is that with a categorical dv, I have to give the program raw data. Can I use the raw data(with my categorical DVs) and ask Mplus to use the partial correlations of my variables of interest?
Otherwise, my understanding of how to run control variables in path analysis is this. I have to add the control variables to the model and estimate their variances, and then covary them with all of the other variables. This results in a path model with a lot of extra paths. That is why I would prefer the former approach that I describe.
posted on Friday, November 01, 2002 - 9:19 am
It sounds like your correlation partialing-out procedure (CPO) is the same as what would be obtained by having the "third variable" as a covariate in a regression or path analysis. I may be wrong, but I suspect that the CPO procedure distorts the standard errors in the final path analysis, so I would vote for avoding this approach. The CPO approach could not be used with categorical dv's because even if you got the adjusted correlations, you would not have the corresponding correct weight matrix to get the correct s.e.'s and chi square.
posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 6:17 am
I am estimating a model with one observed dichotomous outcome, but with one of the predictors being the outcome of a regression equation.
In the first equation, I estimated
y* = f(y1, x1, x2,x3) & y1 = f(w1, w2, and w3).
In the second equation, I estimated
y* = f(y1, x1, x2,x3, x4) & y1 = f(w1, w2, and w3),
adding in additional predictors for the dichotomous outcome.
What was strange was that the coefficients for w1-w3 changed drastically. If I changed y* to a continuous variable, the coefficients for w1-w3 remained constant. I assume that this change in coefficients is a function of the estimator (WLS), but the dramatic changes in the coefficients (one went from 0.3 to -1.1) was disconcerting.
Is there another explanation?
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 8:24 am
It's difficult to answer this without seeing the two outputs and the data. If you send them to
, I will take a look at them.
posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 6:38 am
Hi Linda,
I am using Mplus version 3. Can a nominal dependent variable be a mediating variable?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 7:57 am
No, it cannot. The reason for this is that a mediating variable must be able to be treated as binary or continuous in its role as a indepndent variable in the mediation and a nominal variable can't be treated that way.
posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 1:35 pm
Hi, I have two endogenous variables, one is binary y1 (0/1) and the other is nominal y2 (three categories, 0/1/2). Three questions:
1. I did the following specifications but MPLUS cannot execute my commands. What's wrong with my procedure?
2. When I use y2$1 and y2$2, I want to make y2=0 as the comparison baseline but I am not sure if I am doing it correctly.
3. In MODEL INDIRECT, can I use the following command?
y1 IND y2$1 y2$2 x1;
Please see my procedure:
CATEGORICAL IS y1;
NOMINAL IS y2;
MODEL: y1 ON y2$1 y2$2 x1 x2...;
y2 ON x1 ...
y1 IND y2 x1;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 4:51 pm
This question can best be answered by sending your output, data, and Mplus license number to
Martin Ratzmann
posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 5:35 am
Hi Linda,
I want to run a Multinominal logistic regression (Example 3.6) with one trichonomous dependent variable (Group 1,2, and 3) and five continuous covariates. Some like in Example 3.6 I want to take the alternative specification of dependent Group:
u1#1 u1#2 ON x1 x2 x3 x4 x5;
Why I cant take the specification:
u1#2 u#3 ON x1 x2 x3 x4 x5;
Thank You!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 6:51 am
This is not how the categories are reordered. You would need to use the DEFINE command to change the numbers for the categories.
Cecily Na
posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:48 pm
Dear Linda,
The outcome variable in my SEM model is a dichotomous variable STD (yes/no). In addition to defining STD as a categorical variable, and use WLSMV estimator, is there anything else I need to do?
For example, the predictors of STD are criminal (ordinal) and druguse (a continuous latent factor with categorical indicators v1 v2 )
My partial syntax are the following:
categorical variables are criminal v1 v2 STD
druguse BY v1 v2;
STD ON druguse;
STD ON criminal;
The "ON" command is a logistic regression? How do I interpret the path values?
Thanks a lot!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 - 1:53 pm
The CATEGORICAL list is for dependent variables only. Predictors must be binary or continuous. You can treat criminal as continuous or create dummy variables for it. The regression coefficients using WLSMV are probit not logistic. A good book to consult on probit regression is:
Long, S. (1997). Regression models for categorical and limited
dependent variables. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
caroline masquillier
posted on Monday, March 04, 2013 - 8:21 am
Dear Prof. Muthen,
I am estimating a Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Design for Structural Equation Models. In this model I regress all control variables of the first wave on their second wave counterparts. But some of those control variables are dichotomous. When I identify those control variables of the second wave as categorical my model does not convergence. Do I need to indicate them as categorical? Or is this not required for those control variables?
Thank you very much in advance,
Kind regards,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 04, 2013 - 8:24 am
Any variable only on the right-hand side of ON should not be placed on the CATEGORICAL list.
posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 7:51 am
Dear Professor
I am performing a path model but one of my endogenous variables is an ordinal categorical variable with 4 categories. When I use WLSMV as estimator, mplus defines the categorical dependent variable as a continuous latent variable. I only get one parameter for each of my independent variables in the regression on the ordered categorical dependent variable. For example: my dependent categorical variable is "how often do you pray": Never, once a week, more than once a week, everday. So if I get for example an effect of -0,15 for age, how should I interpret it? Is that with a reference category? And if so, how do I know which category is the reference category?
Is it possible to do a path analysis with a nominal endogenous variable? I'd like to get a separate path co�ffici�nt for each category of my dependent (in comparison to the reference category). If so, could you give me some quick instructions where I could find information on this topic?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 9:43 am
You can put the ordinal variable on the NOMINAL list and you will get different coefficients for different categoriesl
sh wong
posted on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 3:32 am
Hi, I'm trying to run path analysis with one dichotomous dependent variable and few continuous dependent variables similar to example 3.14.
1. May I know which part of output should I refer to for the path coefficients?
2. What kind of R-square is it and how can I interpret it?
3. Can I have a equation similar to running a multiple linear regression of continuous variables, such as u1 = coeff1(y1) + coeff2(y2) + coeff3 (x1) + coeff4 (x2) + coeff5 (x3) ?
Thank you very much.
Marcel Paulssen
posted on Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 8:50 am
I am running a model with a with a binary outcome variable and binary controls (industry dummies) using the WLSMV estimator.
I am reporting the STDY standardization and have coefficients greater than 1, which concerns my reviewers. In such a case is a coefficient greater than 1 an issue?
How do I interpret a coefficient of 1.10 of an industry dummy on my binary outcome variable?
Many thanks for your help in advance
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 10:17 am
See the FAQ on the website Standardized coefficients greater than one.
Kathleen Kennedy-Turner
posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 1:47 pm
I am having trouble finding a specific answer to my question, so I am sorry if this is a repeat question.
We want to run a model where the outcome has 4 levels of schooling (technically they are ordered), however we hypothesize that certain predictors play different roles at different levels of the outcome (violating the assumption of proportional odds). What do you think would be the best way to observe this? Should we identify the outcome as nominal so that it gives us separate coefficients for each category?
What if we wanted to assess whether a certain predictor increases the odds of being in a certain category?
In other words how would Mplus handle this kind of categorical variable?
Thank you
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 4:40 pm
Q1 Declare the DV as nominal.
Q2. Yes
Q3. The nominal regression produces this.
Q4. See above.
Kathleen Kennedy-Turner
posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 7:45 pm
Thank you very much Dr. Muthen
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